A South African video of an antelope colliding with a surprised mountain biker has become a worldwide internet hit almost overnight, racking up just under 5,3-million views (by Wednesday morning) in just over a day.

During a mountain bike race near Albert Falls in KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa, cyclist Evan van der Spuy was dislodged from his bike by a flying Red Hartebeest that appeared to be trying to jump over him.

“Watch the buck!” screamed another mountain biker in the video, Travis Walker, who filmed the race from a video camera mounted on his bike, before crying out a moment later: “Holy cow!”

Despite the collision, both van der Spuy and his new antelope friend emerged intact. He tweeted that the ordeal had put him in hospital with a “stiff neck”.

Author | Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter

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The video of the Shark Attack in Fish Hoek made almost R15K from just over 1 million views and at the time I posted this, this video had well over 3 million views – 15 X 3 and-a-bit = “about R50K”
(I see he has around 7 million views now and has turned on the monetise feature)